Campus Currents

May 3, 2021

Scenes from past CELTSS Student Research Conferences

2021 CELTSS Annual Student Virtual Conference for Research and Creative Practice

Don't miss this annual celebration of student research and creativity! This year's event will be held virtually on Friday, May 7th.

The Annual Student Conference for Research and Creative Practice is a great way to for students to share their work with other students, family members, and other faculty members.

Teaching in Color Through the Lenses of Love

Choose one of these three options when you register at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-in-color-through-the-lenses-of-love-tickets-151231825461

Tuesday, May 4th, 1:30 PM

Thursday, May 6th, 1:30 PM

Wednesday, May 12th, 4:30 PM

Teaching in color is more than skin deep. When you look at a beautiful painting, it is not the result of a singular color, but rather the symphony of colors working together to produce the masterpiece. Our students are the masterpieces. They are all more than skin deep or a singular color. Teaching in color allows you to see yourself and others for more than the primary colors that society exploits. When we learn how to see color, we can begin to truly educate the child in a more meaningful and permanent way. Though race is the dominant color, it does not have to be the defining one. Being able to address ALL their colors, allows our students to be receptive to the education and ensures a better learning environment/experience.

Jennifer Hedrington is the 2021 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year. She has been teaching for 16 years. While attending Law School, she found her calling to become an educator. Her teaching philosophy is teaching in color through the lenses of love, which allows her to educate the whole child while celebrating the uniqueness of each student. Jennifer understands that teachers are a powerful motivating force in the lives of students and have the ability to shape society's next superhero or villain.

Virtual Commencement Ceremonies

The University's Virtual Commencement Ceremonies celebrating the Classes of 2020 and 2021 will be held on Sunday, May 23rd.

The Class of 2020 ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. and the Class of 2021 ceremony will get underway at 2 p.m.

Links to both ceremonies will be available on the following webpage closer to the date of the events:

https://www.framingham.edu/academics/commencement/index

Join us as we celebrate these two amazing and resilient classes!

Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Hudes

By Soren Colstrup, publications intern

Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Hudes read passages from her new book, My Broken Language, a coming-of-age memoir about language and sacred practice in North Philadelphia in the 1990s.

Hudes explained how her interactions with broken language served as lessons to appreciate both Spanish and English culture.

“It basically stops when I became a professional writer in 2004. Its my journey from my earliest memories to when I became a story-teller,” said Hudes. “English is my first language. Spanish was my mother’s first language.”

According to Hudes, even her name, which embodies two different cultures, exemplifies the broken language which she was accustomed to.

“The book is the process of me being a girl, an adolescent, and then a young woman, and learning to see and name and embrace and find language for my experience,” said Hudes. “It was a real revelation for me because my mom was the one who taught me English, and not my dad, even though it was his first language.”

“In order to get a green card, you have to pass tests about the nation and earn and prove your knowledge of the nation--My mom had to earn the English language in a similar way. She wasn’t born with it, she had to work at it and filter it through her own experience. I really prized that.”

Hudes shared a passage from a chapter in her book, in which her mother used a prank phone call to teach her lessons in the barriers of English and Spanish language.

“My mother was able to teach me to hear the English language in a new and different way,” said Hudes.

According to Hudes, during the 90’s, prank calling was a common thing for kids to engage in and one evening when someone called saying ‘your mother is a hoe’ her mother replied ‘thank you’ before hanging up the phone in laughter, instead of being naturally insulted.

Hudes was confused by her mother’s reaction to the phone call, but later learned a valuable lesson about the English language, through her mother’s sense of humor.

“My mother said that when someone calls you a hoe, what they don’t know is they are saying that you are planting seeds for the next generation. You are rejuvenating the Earth, you are breaking that tired soil,” said Hudes.

Last Chance Fabric Week May 3-7

Stop by Alumni House (42 Adams Road) and fill a bag of fabric as we make room for new donations. This will be your last chance before the summer break. A great chance to stock up and do some creating over the next few months!

All items will be outside on the porch 10 am-5 pm (weather permitting)

• Please wear a mask and follow social distancing guidelines

• Fabric, patterns and other items will be available

• Enter our Sewing Machine, Dress Form & Serger Drawings

• Find interesting fabrics for Zoom backgrounds!

For more information call the Independent Association of Framingham State Alumni (IAFSA) at 508-872-9770 or email office@alumnihouse.org

Upcoming events

Women's Lacrosse vs Fitchburg State

Saturday, March 30, 2024

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Maple Street Field

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Baseball vs Albertus Magnus

Monday, April 1, 2024

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Bowditch Field Athletic & Cultural Complex

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